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Despite his reservations about the game, Leach praised the Quincy Assassin Committee's sensitivity in declaring a truce...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assassin Calls Truce After Colorado Deaths | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...wake of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, the Quincy House Assassin Committee announced a 19-hour truce yesterday out of respect for the 15 people killed in Tuesday's Littleton, Colo. rampage...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assassin Calls Truce After Colorado Deaths | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...game of Assassin, in which 70-odd Quincy residents participate, involves groups of students who attempt to "kill" each other in extended mock battles with toy guns...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assassin Calls Truce After Colorado Deaths | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, who forbids Lowell residents from playing Assassin, said in a March interview that the game "was not in keeping with the spirit of community life...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assassin Calls Truce After Colorado Deaths | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with Assassin as a game, and at least in Dunster there were rules restricting the games to Dunster after dark and requiring the use of bright neon colored plastic dart pistols which no one could mistake for the real guns. As for Leach's experience playing Assassin, I can only say that any game you play that you take too seriously ceases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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